Metamodernism as a Tester of New Creative Stimuli

The purpose of the research is to analyse metamodernism as a tester of new creative stimuli. The methodology of the research is based on general scientific research principles; terminological and systemic. The purpose and tasks of the publication determined the use of such research methods as analysis, synthesis, generalisation, which made it possible to clarify the meaning of a number of concepts and terms. Scientific novelty lies in the study of a new cultural phenomenon, namely metamodernism. Since a significant part of domestic cultural experts as well as art critics such as film critics, musicologists and specialists dealing with various genres of fine art ignored those works that appeared in the corresponding spheres of metamodernism. The first assessments of this cultural phenomenon start publishing only from 2015–2017. Their authors were mostly philosophers and estheticians, not representatives of cultural knowledge. Conclusions. In the field of Ukrainian humanities, cultural studies are developing quite actively and dynamically, constantly expanding the research area. We consider it necessary to develop the practice of adding the prefix "post" to stable concepts or categories, namely: postmodernity, postculture, postart, postmodernism. The problem of conceptual and categorical provision of cultural studies, meaning the practice of arguing new concepts, the introduction of which is connected with a specific author's surname, is attributed to their personal development, the ideas of which are supported by other specialists. Work in this direction is one of the most important theoretical perspectives of Ukrainian cultural studies.